This is a book report of the book "A dream of stars" written by Brian Caswell.

In the short stories of "A Dream of Stars", there is often recurring themes. One of the things that Brian Caswell uses in these stories is self-esteem. Brian Caswell repeats this in most of the stories in "a Dream of Stars". In the story "Freeze" there is a Character called Simon. He doesn't receive much attention from his parents and he likes to receive a lot of attention. When he is a young child, Simon …

…in the story we find out that Sam is a clone, made by an alien and she is an experiment. She was formed by Colin's dreams and thoughts about the perfect girl. As soon as Colin finds out that she is a clone, or an alien, he fells discussed and extremely sad but soon and after he hears an explanation from Sam he finds out that she still is human and he still loves her.